20 August, 2014: Big Words! reading series @ 61 Local 61 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY 6:30pm 21+ This reading will be suggested donation with all of the proceeds going to pay off the rental space. Whatever remains we have will be donated to a literary based charity, such as 826NYC.

15 March, 2014: EterniDay: Queens Poet Lore Festival Performing with Poetry Teachers NYC @ Queens Museum Queens, NY 12-8pm This is a day-long event curated by current poet laureate of Queens, Paolo Javier. This festival, named after a term coined by Joseph Cornell, will feature performances, discussions, workshops, and a book fair with some independent publishers of innovative literature. There will be Poets-in-the-Gallery events throughout the day to commemorate the recent exhibits at the Queens Museum.

Thurs. 13 Feb., 2014 Stuck on Cupid: St. Valentine’s Day Love Notes- A Night of Music and Poetry. @ Tammany Hall 152 Orchard St. NYC Doors open at 6pm/ show 6:30pm $10 (21+) Presented by The Inspired Word.

Fri. 31 Jan., 2014Switch N’ Play Drag Night: Evening of Burlesque, Drag and Performance Art @ Outpost Lounge 1014 Fulton St. Brooklyn Doors 9:30pm/ Show 10pm Dance party to follow! $7 OR $5 if you come to the event in drag. I’ll be performing “The Ritual Union of Peanut Butter and Jelly” with the magnificent Jherelle Benn.

Sun. 22 Dec., 2013 Evening of pop art, fashion, poetry, music. 5-10 pm. NYC $10 To RSVP, go to Platform Pop Event. I will be performing graffiti poetics with Nichole Acosta. Audience members are encouraged to write words on our bodies as a way of archiving language on skin. Poets will freestyle the sounds and syllables off of our bodies.

Sundays Oct 6, 13, 20, 28 12-2pm Writing Workshops with Poetry Teachers NYC at The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NYC ($99 for all sessions) Our workshops will consist of 3 teachers: Dan Dissinger, Aimee Herman, and Megan DiBello. We will focus on a student revising old work, reacting to other students work, as well as reviewing what they have learned not only in the workshop, but from each other. This class is open to all levels of writing. The classes will consist of discussion, writing, reading, craft, critique, editing, and performance technique.

Monday, 30 Sept. 2013 A celebration of Banned Poetry @ Housing Works Bookshop 126 Crosby St. NYC 7pm Sponsored by PEN American Center and the American Booksellers Foundation for readings in celebration of PEN’s Banned Books Month and the poets whose work have been banned throughout history. Hear banned and censored poems by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Walt Whitman, Frank O’Hara, Daniil Kharms, and many more, as read by some of today’s best contemporary poets.

Friday, 27 Sept. 2013 Dumbo Arts Festival with Poetry Teachers NYC . The installation will be under the Manhattan Bridge, in the archway. Performances will be from 12-6pm on the 28th and 12-5pm on the 29th.

Saturday, 21 Sept. 2013 Performing at The Newer New York Reading at Vig Bar 12 Spring St. NYC 6-8pm

Sun. 14 July, 2013 Jump Rope Salon at the Bowery Poetry Club. This will be the first of MANY salons at the Bowery Poetry Club, @ 308 Bowery NYC so be there to usher in this new Bowery Poetry event! The performance will be dedicated to the late Taylor Mead, a regular at the Bowery Poetry Club, and an organizer of chaos. It’s a happening and it’s for Taylor. Performers are working off Frank O’Hara’s “The General Returns From One Place To Another.” It won Taylor his 1st Obie. This performance will include Bob HolmanSam Jablon, Megan DiBello, Daniel Dissinger, Peter Rugh Aimee Herman, Bowwow Poetry, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, and others.

Sat. 12 July, 2013 Poetry Teachers NYC collaboration of poetry performances with Samuel Jablon, Megan DiBello, Daniel Dissenger, Aimee Herman, Peter Rugh, Bob Holman, Nikhil Melnechuk, David Lawton, Gina Mobilio and others at Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd 12-2pm FREE In collaboration with the sculpture park and the sculptures there, Poetry Teachers NYC, with the help of some of NYC’s finest performers, will bring these structures to life. The formation and words of the poets will define the sculpture via collective action, group decisions, and word (sound) waves. Poet sculpture will be in constant flux, with poets not performing one at a time as in a scheduled reading, but together, interweaving their words, creating a unified sculpture (“poem”), while physically interacting.

Fri. July 22nd, 2011 Hot! Festival @ Dixon PlaceUNBOUND S/HE: EJACULATING BEAUTY Written and performed by: Aimee Herman Travel along the seams of the ever-changing and sometimes confused queer body. Aimee Herman utilizes music, movement and language to translate the stories of one queer body as it unravels itself in patches of narration. This is a funny, sexy, and revealing portrayal of one particular journey through queerness, gender and the complications of labels.

~ FOLLOWED BY ~ WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE THE ONE Created & Performed by Laryssa Husiak
In a trio of live music videos, solo artist Laryssa Husiak explores the sexualization of women through
repetitive thrusts and blank stares. Don’t worry, it’s not as ball-busting as it sounds: she is wearing a
groovy swimsuit. The result is a ferocious dance party spun out of some classic tunes.

Sun. June 12th, 2011 Doors open at 7:30pm, show begins at 8pm @ Public Assembly 70 North 6th St. Brooklyn, NY Sex Worker Cabaret $12 in advance/$15 at the door. For more info, go to: http://www.sexworkercabaret.com/home/

Thurs. April 14th, 2011 6-9pm The New School 2 West 13th St. NY, NY Queerocracy Art Exhibition of images, videos, live performances, readings, comics, and art to kick off beginning of the Queerocracy Symposium

MAY 22nd 2009, The Center, 208 W. 13th St. NYC 6:30 PMAimee Herman will be reading selections fromOysters & Chocolate Erotic Stories of Every Flavor and talk about writing erotica. There will be a film following the discussion and reading. Books will be available for purchase. (For more info, go to : http://www.gaycenter.org/)

MAY 31st 2009, Madame X Lounge, 94 West Houston St. NYC 7:30 PM–This sexy bar is the perfect place to sit back in their signature comfy couches, sip on a fruity concoction and listen to the erotica of Jeremy Edwards and Aimee Herman, contributors to the anthology,Oysters & Chocolate Erotic Stories of Every Flavor. (For more info, go to: http://www.madamex.com/)